This library delivers a wealth of siren sounds, from police cars, ambulances, fire trucks and more. Features a range of US siren wails and yelps, arrivals, constant wailing and pass-bys, from internal and external perspectives + siren recordings from countries such as Spain, Denmark, Mexico, France and Germany. These sounds are all hand-picked from Sound Ideas General HD and General HD 2 libraries.

European Sirens is a large collection of 320+ European siren sound effects – captured from ambulances, firefighter trucks and police cars in up to 6 different perspectives.

It features drive-by’s, aways, and arriving sirens shot in different perspectives. In-depth recordings of eight different police sirens, three firefighter sirens and three ambulance sirens are included. All sounds are Soundminer metadata embedded.

A little skateboard recording session of some rolling on surfaces such as Wood, Metal, Concrete and Asphalt. Board manipulations like Wheels spinning, Board impact on the floor, Grinding metal and concrete – and more.

The library contains 114 files of skateboarding sounds.

Each sound has been meticulously edited individually. All files were recorded and are delivered in 24bit 96kHz. Broadcast Wave files, all embedded with metadata information for easy import and to ensure a fast and easy workflow.

Skate on Board is an SFX library with the purpose of bringing alive the hidden sounds of skateboarding. This library has 65 stereo recordings with the best sound quality of actions such as jumps, pass by, and grinds over different surfaces like concrete banquets, and rail tubes. Furthermore, this library contains 47 mono audios of P.O.V perspectives which were reordered with different microphones attached to the skateboard to capture the full maneuvers and details of skateboarding.

A collection of real and gritty skateboard sounds. We recorded these sounds on the streets and not in the studio. Featuring various skateboard riding movement and trick sounds. These sounds are so real, you can hear the bearings squeak.

Need the sounds of a snowmobile / snow scooter? The Ski-doo library gets you the sound of no less than 6 different snowmobiles. It comes with a selection of sounds such as engine start, engine loop, acceleration, speed loop and much more.

A unique collection of engine sounds, for when you need snowmobile sounds specifically, as well as for other creative sound design purposes!

Who doesn't love the sounds of speed? In this library, you'll hear the fast, harsh sounds of a drift car skidding on tarmac. The library contains skidding with engine running, skidding with engine switching off, skidding on wet tarmac, roll bys on wet and dry tarmac, spinning in circles, rolling with flat tire and much more. Both onboard and exterior perspectives are covered, and several microphones were positioned at each wheel, inside the car, and along the skidding path.

Some additional material is included, such as a supercharged Chevy -57 burnout, handbrake skids from a Skoda, and more.

Get the authentic sound of a Skoda Octavia 2008 with a 1.6 liters 4 cylinder engine. The recording contains eight onboard channels, three engine, three exhaust and interior left and right, and ten exterior channels. It contains startup, shutdown, idle, revving, driving on constant rpms, accelerations and decelerations, ramps, passbys, aways and approaches.

Recording of a Polish/Czechoslovakian SKOT OT-64 armored personnel carrier from 1968 with a V8 diesel engine.

The SKOT OT-64 armored personnel carrier features 713 clips and 36.83 gigabytes from a 1968 wheeled 14-tonne version of the Polish/Czechoslovakian military vehicle. It showcases the sound of its V8 diesel 12000 cubic centimetre engine with a 5 gear transmission.

A total of 23 synchronized takes depict onboard, exterior, and rendered mixes. The exterior takes (13 perspectives) feature driving at slow, medium, and fast speeds from multiple locations while departing, passing, and arriving. The 13 onboard perspectives share driving with gearshifts and ramps from the engine, exhaust, and interior, including an Ambisonic perspective. Also featured are mixes of the exhaust, passenger compartment, interior, engine, and gearbox. Additionally, the collection gathers multiple takes of doors, buttons, switches, hatches, and other performed effects.

The sound library is packaged with Altiverb, Waves, and starter pistol impulse responses, pre-arranged Pro Tools and Reaper mixing sessions, and full professional metadata embedded into every clip.

The Terrängbil SKP m/42D APC sound fx collection includes 684 clips in 20.18 gigabytes of audio. It features the sound of a 1942 Swedish armoured personnel carrier and its Scania-Vabis 4-cylinder petrol, 115 horsepower engine at 2300 RPM performing in 42 synchronized takes.

The sound library includes 14 combined onboard and exterior perspectives in 23 channels. The 9 onboard perspectives feature microphones mounted in the interior, at the exhaust, and in the engine recording the vehicle travelling at slow, medium, and fast speeds with ramps and steady RPMs. The exterior microphones capture passes by, starts, stops, departures, and arrivals, captured in a rainy environment. There is also an extensive amount of performed fx such as hatches, doors, moving inside, shell drops and instruments.

The package also includes Pro Tools and Reaper pre-arranged mixing sessions, Altiverb and starter pistol impulse responses, and almost 20 fields of professional metadata.

Skytrain Rapid Transit FX is a collection of unique passby’s, overhead POV and onboard sounds recorded at 24bit 96khz both in stereo and mono, giving you maximum flexibility and realism for your projects.

The Vancouver transit system is world renowned and carries millions of residents and visitors on board each year since its beginnings in the 1980’s. The older cars have a particular screech to them, perfect for creative design for monsters or machines, and can compliment any variety of air craft or land transport library.

Meet this small amphibious hovercraft, which is beloved by locals in a archipelago. It has one engine to make it hoover and one to make it go forward.

The recordings consist of a 7 minute 41 second session from six onboard channels near the main exhaust, main engine, two front engine, hull front, and the propeller. The library also contains several startups, idle, stops, revving at constant RPMs standing still, and lots of driving at different speeds on both water and land. These are the sounds of pure fun!

The Smart Fortwo is a unique everyday car. Under the hood, or rather under the trunk (it’s a rear mounted engine) this hatchback sports a tiny 41hp diesel engine. Normally covered for obvious reasons, we opened it up to expose the engine and get some super clean onboard recordings from inside the car.

Also, because the Fortwo has a quasi-manual transmission, we were able to perform the gear changes with dramatic sequences in mind. So they are more pronounced, adding some character that is sometimes lost in a fully automatic transmission.

Included are a full set of exterior and onboard (engine/tailpipe) recordings at varying speeds as well as all the doors and a couple dashboard chimes.

‘Smooth City Traffic’ by Badlands Sound includes 21 high-quality city traffic ambiences great for your projects. Hear the smooth sounds of traffic rushing through the city. This library was recorded by Sound Devices 702t with a pair of Line Audio CM3’s and a matched pair of Sennheiser MKH 8040’s in 96k / 24bit.

Feel the weight and the whooshing of the various vehicle passbys rushing through the city. You will also notice the unique qualities in each file like a car passing by with a flat tire, semi trucks, sports cars speeding by, as well as aggressive diesel trucks.

Recording of a French 1942 SOMUA S35 cavalry tank from World War 2. It is powered by a SOMUA V-8 petrol engine, running on a malfunctioning engine with 6 out of 8 pistons.

The French 1942 SOMUA S35 cavalry tank sound collection gathers 276 clips in 14.73 gigabytes of sound. Also known as the S40, this tank was used by the Allies and later the Axis forces in World War 2. It is powered by a SOMUA V-8 petrol engine, running on a malfunctioning engine with 6 out of 8 pistons.

11 synchronized takes of driving are shared from both onboard and exterior perspectives. The onboard perspectives mount microphones in the engine, interior, and at the exhaust. A variety of exterior perspectives capture the tank approaching, departing, passing, reversing, and more at slow, medium, and fast speeds. Bundled with the sound library are custom mixes of the onboard tracks.

Every clip is embedded with professional metadata. Also included are Pro Tools and Reaper mixing sessions, and metadata import files for keywords in seven languages: English, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.

Anybody familiar with travelling on the London Underground will be aware of the distinct soundscapes beneath the streets of London; from the clatter of the ticket hall barriers to the eerie rumbles from the tunnels, waiting in anticipation for the next train to come rushing past before stopping with the squeal of the brakes.

Each type of train on the network has its own distinct characteristics such as the moaning of the electric traction motors or the peculiar sound of the 1996 Stock used on the Jubilee Line.

All of these sounds have been beautifully captured in 24-bit 48KHz quality- recorded both with XY stereo microphones and binaurally- creating a highly realistic experience for headphone users.

Note to users:
As many of you will know, like many urban transit systems, the London Underground is littered with pre-recorded public announcements.
These recordings have been extensively edited to the highest quality to ensure that these pre-recorded announcements have been removed where possible.

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